Minimum Distance Travelled
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November 17, 2005
geometry3D geometrytrigonometryAMCAIMEtrig identitiesLaw of Cosines
Problem Statement
A right circular cone has a base with radius 600 and height . A fly starts at a point on the surface of the cone whose distance from the vertex of the cone is 125, and crawls along the surface of the cone to a point on the exact opposite side of the cone whose distance from the vertex is . Find the least distance that the fly could have crawled.